Anna Jarvis vs. Mother’s Day

Anna Jarvis was appalled by the commercialization of Mother’s Day, the day she’d created after the death of her mother in 1905. She wrote of “charlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and termites that would undermine with their greed one of the finest, noblest and truest movements and celebrations. Jarvis then copyrighted Mother’s Day in order to sue anyone who used it without her permission and to stop markets from making money off it.